What does it mean to Smith to be the living son of an enslaved person in the 21st century? Smith’s children were the hardest workers, had the best manners and were the brightest, too. “We were poor as church mice, but we were better because my father said we were better,” Dan Smith said. “We just listened, and whatever came out of his mouth, that’s what we heard,” Dan Smith said. Clarification: Dan Smith originally said his father worked for $16 a day as a janitor at a factory.

Source: Washington Post July 27, 2020 11:03 UTC